Pizza. Do you call it 'pie'?

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Yes, I call it a pie sometimes, but then, I'm fom NY. If I go to order a pizza, I'll often say "I'd like to get a pie with extra cheese and pepperoni" or something like that.

 

[Zappo]

Also known as a troll-style pizza?

Yup! That's what the fire in the oven is for, after all.

Zappo should remember that true "Italian style pizza" doesn't have any tomato sauce on it, since tomatos are in import from the New World.

Modern pizza ain't that ancient, you know. Not everything in Europe has a thousand years.

 

[Mark CMG]

Having been born in Philly, but having spent most of my life in (and around) Chicago, I had always understand referring to a Pizza as a Pie as an East Coast peccadillo.

 

[devilbat]

It's a Pizza around here. You say Pie, and someone will think apple, or something a little more......adult.

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

It's a Pizza around here. You say Pie, and someone will think apple, or something a little more......adult.

Like Pumpkin Pie Perhaps?

 

[thalmin]

I had a neighbor who called pizza "bubblegum pie." But he was weird in other ways, too.

 

[thalmin]

And how about submarine sandwiches? I call them "subs" but I've heard them referred to as "hero sandwiches", "hogies", "footlongs", ect.

Don't forget "torpedoes," "grinders," and "poor boys."
I prefer "sub."

 

[devilbat]

Like Pumpkin Pie Perhaps?

Exactly!

 

[Blue_Kryptonite]

Rochester, NY. 70+ year old relatives on down, all the friends I had growing up, etc:

Pizza. No Pie.

Subs.

Former Gyro resturaunt chef in college: Yer-Row. One warning before being fired if you mispronounced it.

 

[Zander]

In the UK, pizza is never called "pie".

The only pizza that I think of as "pie" is, as has already been mentioned in this thread, the Chicago-style which you can't get in the UK AFAIK. The only place I've had it is (surprise, surprise) Chicago.